Kill the Lights (Luke Bryan album)

Kill the Lights has received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a "weighted average" rating out of 100 from selected independent ratings and reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a Metascore of 69/100, based on nine reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. The Oakland Presss Gary Graff rates the album a B submitting: "Bryan has found his lane, and he doesn't mess with it on 'Kill The Lights,' a characteristically likable collection of friendly come-ons, lost love laments and sentimental odes to gravel roads and car rides to the nearest big town...It's solid from start to finish, refining what fans know and, mostly, love about Bryan's music and ensuring that his career lights will continue to shine for the foreseeable future." Glenn Gamboa from Newsday rates the album a B+ surmising: "Experimenting is good, but sometimes sticking to what you know is even better." Rolling Stones Will Hermes rates the album three stars believing: "Bryan's fifth studio album is well-turned Nashville radio bait, trite yet undeniable, sure to drive up bar tabs in 50 states and beyond." The New York Times Jon Caramanica gives a review pondering: "Mr. Bryan's fifth studio album, is his most mature, and almost studiously un-fun...Mr. Bryan is trading in his youthful vim for something more measured...For just a few seconds in each one, he hit that slow gyration of the hips that he's known for, and he looked like a man at peace." ==Commercial performance==

Upon its release, Kill the Lights and Compton by Dr. Dre were poised to make their entries at the top of the US Billboard 200 chart; each of those has sold over 300,000 units. In the issue of August 29, the album debuted atop the chart, selling 345,000 album-equivalent units (including 320,000 pure album sales) in the week ending August 13. As a result, this became Bryan's third number-one album on the chart, and the third-biggest selling week for an album in 2015 (behind ''If You're Reading This It's Too Late by Drake and To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, respectively). As it combined with Compton — which sold 295,000 equivalent units (276,000 traditional album sales) and entered the chart at number 2 in the same issue, the two albums have earned 640,000 units overall. This marked the first time two albums have garnered at least 294,000 units since December 2014. In addition, Kill the Lights also debuted at number one on the US Billboard'' Top Country Albums chart, making this Bryan's sixth album in his career to ever reach the position. On the chart dated September 5, the album held the top spot for two weeks, selling 99,000 equivalent units. This made it the first country music album to stay more than one week at the top position since 2013 (following his Crash My Party in 2013, which spent its second and final week atop the chart in the issue of September 7, 2013). In late-2015, the album became the tenth highest-selling album of the year in the US, having sold 851,000 copies. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on February 8, 2016. In July 2016, the album reached its million sales mark in the US, becoming Bryan's fourth album to do so. The album was certified 2× platinum on July 17, 2017, by the RIAA. In Canada, the album entered the Canadian Albums Chart at number 2, selling 22,000 copies in its debut week. That was the second biggest country music debut of 2015, behind Yoan Garneau's Yoan. ==Track listing==

Adapted from AllMusic: • Luke Bryan – vocals • Mike Rojas – acoustic piano, synthesizers, Hammond B3 organ • Jeff Stevens – keyboards, electric guitar, backing vocals • Jody Stevens – keyboards, programming, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, backing vocals • J.T. Corenflos – electric guitar • Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar • Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar • Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin • Eddy Dunlap – pedal steel guitar • Mark Hill – bass • Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass • Shannon Forrest – drums • Greg Morrow – drums • Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin • Perry Coleman – backing vocals • Hillary Lindsey – backing vocals • Jenifer Wrinkle – backing vocals • Karen Fairchild – vocals (track 4) Production • Brian Wright – A&R • Jeff Stevens – producer • Jody Stevens – producer • Derek Bason – recording, mixing • Chris Small – recording assistant, digital editing • Adam Ayan – mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine) • Scott Johnson – production assistant • Karen Naff – art direction • Wendy Stamberger – design • Jim Wright – front cover and back cover photography, booklet photos (pages 3, 4 & 12) • Carlos Ruiz – booklet photos (pages 6, 9 & 10) • Paula Turner – grooming • Lee Moore – wardrobe • Kerri Edwards with KPentertainment – management • Red Light Management – management ==Charts==

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